Interviews
A Future That Has No History
Laure Prouvost and Jonas Staal talk about how they oversee, as artists and co-administrators, a universe of nipples, tentacles, plants, signs and other non-humans in their projects
A Future That Has No History
Laure Prouvost and Jonas Staal talk about how they oversee, as artists and co-administrators, a universe of nipples, tentacles, plants, signs and other non-humans in their projects
From Environmental Activist to Minister of Canadian Heritage
In a Toronto chat just days into leading the nation’s culture file, Steven Guilbeault answers questions on climate crises, museums and an artist resale right
Writing Performances
Does a performance need an audience like writing needs a reader? In a conversation over several months, artist Jana Omar Elkhatib discusses how she developed a series of new works for Hamilton Artists Inc., through writing, sound and the body
From Margin to Centre, and Back Again
“I sensed a social ecology I had to navigate but did not understand,” says artist Ken Lum of the rules-based art world that surrounded him. “And when I did start to understand it, I was unsympathetic to why this social ecology had to be heeded”
The Future Is Femme
Sobey Art Award winner Stephanie Comilang discusses representation, family and why she feminizes drones in her videos
Maintaining Our Own Histories
Jamie Ross, Jade Yumang, Hazel Meyer and Tobaron Waxman discuss queer activism, archival legacies and strategies of resistance—from the highpoint of the sexual revolution to today
This is the future
Renowned artist Hito Steyerl talks gardening, manure, free ports and the joys of working with community
Toronto Rising
Art Toronto's new director Mia Nielsen sees growing international excitement about Canada’s largest city—and intends to build on that
Rogue Archaeology
Two artists discuss dark energy, living media and the liveliness of the materials they paint with—from bitumen and coal to algae and pollen
Phantoms of Post-Coloniality
“The gazes in my paintings are not accidental.” Senegalese artist Omar Ba speaks with Montreal-based scholar James Oscar about hauntings and ghosts, frequencies and repetition, and the politics of painting now
From the Archive
Veronika Pausova Paints a Spidery Sublime
This artist spins webs of imagery by turns cartoonish and trompe l’oeil, ab ex and VFX, rife with loopy insects, nail-bitten fingers and other surreal turns
I Need to Know Where I’m Standing
Following her Sobey win, a conversation with Kapwani Kiwanga on audiences, critique strategies and when critics get it wrong
Moyra Davey Discusses Her Mother Reader, 15 Years On
Acclaimed Canadian artist Moyra Davey published her perennially relevant Mother Reader in 2001. Now, she reveals how motherhood continues to affect her art.